Dante begins the Divine Comedy in exile
1307
Wandering the courts of Verona and Ravenna, Dante Alighieri set out to write a hundred-canto poem describing a pilgrimage through hell, purgatory, and heaven, in Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin. It would rescue Italian as a literary language, map the medieval cosmos in terza rima, and scorch Dante's personal enemies for all eternity in rhyming tercets.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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